Laubegast shipyard

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View from the Elbe to the shipyard's slipways
Elbdampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft (and successor) and its shipyards

The Laubegast shipyard was built between 1895 and 1898 in what is now the Laubegast district of Dresden , after the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company, founded as the Elbe Steamship Company, was supposed to relocate its shipyard, which was built in Blasewitz in 1855 , at the instigation of the up-and-coming villa community.

It is the last remaining shipyard in Dresden .

Shipyard Blasewitz

The paddle steamers Dresden (here still painted in black), Meissen and Bohemia at the Blasewitz pier. Germania, which is under construction at the shipyard

The steam navigation on the Upper Elbe began in 1835 when a Heckraddampfboot by Heinrich Wilhelm Calberla , owner of Calberlaschen Zuckersiederei , on 7 May 1835 by Hamburg Coming arrived with two barges in tow in Dresden. The Elbdampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft, founded on March 25, 1836 with a constituent meeting, was granted the privilege of steam navigation in the Kingdom of Saxony by King Friedrich August II on July 8, 1836 .

Since the shipyard in Krippen , leased for six years in 1851, was too far away, the United Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Service acquired the Naumannsche Stadtgut in Blasewitz in 1855 and expanded it into a shipyard. The shipyard's first newbuildings, the paddle steamers Pillnitz (1857) and Meissen (1857), were built by the shipbuilding company WU Pearce in Ludwigshafen / Rh and assembled from the delivered parts in the Blasewitz shipyard. The parts of the Aussig built in 1858 and the Waldschlösschen built in 1863 were delivered by the Swiss engineering company Escher Wyss & Co. in Zurich .

From 1858 onwards, the entire new buildings for the company that were used in traffic on the Upper Elbe were built here. The Kronprinz , built in 1858, was the first ship of its own design. Based on the Aussig , the ship still had oval windows. While the Maria , built in 1860, still received simple angular windows, the Pirna , built as the third ship in 1861, was the first ship with the typical double windows. On March 26, 1867, the company was transformed into the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company (SBDG). By 1898, 43 paddle steamers and four ferry steamers had been built at the shipyard. The last ship to be launched was the Karlsbad , built in 1898 .

Shipyard Laubegast

In 1898 the shipyard was relocated to Laubegast , where, in addition to side-wheel steamers , other ships such as motor barges, motor ferries and barges were increasingly being built. Around 125 ships were built by 1945. Another eight paddle steamers were built at the shipyard. With the Leipzig built in 1929 , the construction of side wheel steamers ended. A planned new ship was no longer carried out in 1938 because the Laubegaster shipyard was needed for armaments production. A total of 51 paddle steamers were built exclusively for the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company. Between 1915 and 1917 the company owned 34 steamers, 33 of which were in service. Seven of these ships, the oldest being the town of Wehlen , built in 1879 , are still in use today and show the astonishing quality of the shipyard in building and maintaining the ships. A ship, the Meissen , launched in 1881 and sailing on the Weser as Crown Prince Wilhelm from 1907 , has been partially in the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven since 1968 (central nave with boiler, engine and paddle wheels).

Laubegast ship repair yard

After the initial dismantling of the shipyards in the Soviet occupation zone from 1945 to 1948, SMAD Order No. 103 followed in 1948 , which ordered the capacity to be increased in shipbuilding and ship repair. As a result, existing shipyards on inland rivers and on the coast were expanded, new shipyards were built and a shipbuilding supply industry was established. The VEB ship repair yard Laubegast dealt initially with the ship repair and began around 1958 with the construction of new ships. Mainly ferries, push boats and motor barges were manufactured. Until the privatization , the construction list comprised 165 ships.

Privatization in 1991

Ship value Laubegast 2012

After privatization by the Treuhand, the Laubegast shipyard was integrated into the German inland shipyard association . Falling orders led to bankruptcy filing in the following years. In 2000 the shipyard was taken over by investors from Dresden and operated as an independent shipyard. In 2005 the Laubegast shipyard was sold and renamed Schiffs- und Yachtwerft Dresden GmbH (SYWD) . She was also responsible for the maintenance and repair as well as conversions and modernizations of the steamers of the Saxon Steamship ( White Fleet ) and other ships.

After a major order for the Kwale and Likoni ferries for Kenya , which could not be built at cost, the Dresden ship and yacht yard filed for bankruptcy in January 2011. The shipyard was initially closed on March 28, 2013. In April of that year, a cooperative founded by six craft companies from Saxony negotiated to take over the shipyard. In the early summer of the year the shipyard was sold to the Siegen entrepreneur Reinhard Saal. The ship was abandoned and part of the yard to the Saxon Steamship Company rents which thereby has its own repair shop. In 2019 the shipyard was acquired by real estate entrepreneurs Sven Spielvogel and Rico Richert. The repair yard of steam shipping is to be retained.

literature

  • GDR shipbuilding: tradition and present - shipbuilding museum on the traditional ship. Shipbuilding Museum Rostock-Schmarl, Rostock 1972.
  • D. Strobel, G. Dame: With MTW to the sea: Shipbuilding in Wismar . Hinstorff, Rostock 1996, ISBN 3-356-00660-6 .
  • D. Strobel, G. Dame: Shipbuilding between Elbe and Oder . Koehler, Herford 1993, ISBN 3-7822-0565-0 .
  • E. Müller, R. Schlott, K. Wietasch: Technical innovations in inland shipping . In: 100 Years of the Shipbuilding Society . Springer, Berlin 2001.
  • R. Schönknecht, A. Gewiese: Inland shipping between Elbe and Oder . Hamburg 1996.

Web links

Commons : Werft Laubegast  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tobias Wolf: Laubegaster shipyard is broke , Sächsische Zeitung , January 11, 2011.
  2. ↑ Tobias Wolf: The unfinished end , Sächsische Zeitung, March 30, 2013.
  3. ^ Bettina Klemm: Cooperative wants to save Laubegaster shipyard , Sächsische Zeitung, April 30, 2013.
  4. ^ Freshness treatment for Laubegaster shipyard , Sächsische Zeitung, December 24, 2013.
  5. ↑ Tobias Wolf: Trouble about missing shipyard files , Sächsische Zeitung, October 21, 2013.
  6. ↑ Siegener buys shipyard in Dresden , Siegener Zeitung .
  7. ↑ Tobias Wolf: Aus für Schiffsbau in Laubegast , in: Sächsische Zeitung , March 28, 2015.
  8. ↑ Sven Spielvogel takes over the Laubegast shipyard in DNN on July 18, 2019, accessed on January 7, 2020

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '7.9 "  N , 13 ° 50' 38.2"  E